Installation

To boot from an USB stick it is neccessary to deactivate the "Boot Booster"-option in the BIOS or otherwise the Asus seems to skip all detection scans and will just boot from harddisk. Press F2 repeatedly during the fortunately short POST to enter the BIOS. Deactivate "Boot Booster" and select "Removable Dev." as 1st boot device. Rem: For me it still was neccessary to press Esc during POST and manually select the USB stick to boot from it. This may be a BIOS-bug (ver. 0403)

When partitioning you may want to keep the EFI-partition (usually the last, smallest partition). It allows to use the "Boot Booster"-Feature and to jump over certain tests before booting. Don't panic however if you deleted it, the partition may be restored. Look on the eeePC-Forum for it.

Sound

The soundcard is correctly recognized but alsa does not feature the correct model-option (yet) to setup the rather interesting pin connections. What mostly works is adding

options indel-hda-snd model=lifebook

to your /etc/modprobe/modprobe.conf. I did not however get the internal microphone working. The external microphone over the combined audio jack was not tested.

Adjusting the brightness of the display works with hotkeys after adding the following to your kernel-boot-options

acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor

I did however not find out how to adjust the brightness manually, eg. per command-line.

Personal Remark: The overall endurance seems good. While I never actually reached the promised 10h, 8h-9h are possible with dimmed display, 4h while really working with it. The power-saving-support is probably not worse than on windows.

Issueless hardware

Graphics

The integrated GPU (Pineview) is supported with KMS by i915 meaning xf86-video-intel.

(W)LAN

The WLAN-chip is fully supported by ath9k in all three modes of operation (b/g/n).
Ethernet works fine.